PREMIERE: Sven Wegner - Head Nod Funk [Mostly Cozy]

Release Date Worldwide: 02/07/2021

Sven Wegner
Soundcloud | @sven-wegner
Facebook | www.facebook.com/svenwegnermusic

Mostly Cozy
Soundcloud | @mostlycozy
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PREMIERE: Sven Wegner - Head Nod Funk [Mostly Cozy]

Buy / Stream it here: https://orcd.co/remikabaka

BBE Music are proud to reissue one of the most elusive and sought-after Afro-Funk LPs of all time: SON OF AFRICA, by REMI KABAKA.

Now a proud 85 years of age and enjoying retirement in America, Remi was the cornerstone of British West African music in the 50s, 60s and 70s, along with Ginger Oloronso Johnson, Fela Kuti and others. But while Ginger played mambo and cha cha cha in Soho clubland and Fela released his early ‘highlife jazz’ records on the Melodisc label, Remi Kabaka was fully ensconced in the UK Rock world, playing sessions and live shows with The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and countless others.

As the 60s became the 70s, Kabaka developed yet another string to his bow: the development of a UK based West African Funk scene, that found its genesis in the legendary Osibisa, but with an influence and an inspiration that spilled over into every contemporary Brit Funk band from Cymande and the Equals to The Average White Band, Matata and beyond.

SON OF AFRICA was originally released by Chris Blackwell’s Island records in 1976, to little acclaim, very few reviews, and with almost no promotion. African music was a hard sell when the 70s Black British record market wanted reggae first and foremost, and with Bob Marley on the books, Island understandably had other priorities at the time. The record disappeared. Until it reappeared in the early 2000s, as a £700-plus collectors’ item.

It’s barely 30 minutes long. But every single minute is drenched with sinuous, spare funk: no spacey psych rock, no disco, no boogie, no over-the-top production: just 90-110 BPM grooves that go straight to the body.

So: whether you’re a turntablist, a hip hop sampler, or just an honest-to-goodness African Funk lover, catch this limited reissue (with full, updated liner notes) while you can. There won’t be another chance.

Remi Kabaka - Son of Africa

Remi Kabaka - Meteorite

Rob Garza & Neighbour - Morning Chant (featuring Yacouba Diarra)

[intro]
God, grant me the serenity…

[verse 1]
Keep pourin’ old ghosts into a coffee cup
Sayin’ this time’s different, but it never shows up
Eyes clouded like windows in a house long sold
I keep knockin' hopin’ my friend's still home

[pre-chorus]
I try to pull you up by the hand
But you reach for the bottle instead
Now I pray instead of beg
Whisperin' in the language of regret

[chorus]
God, grant me peace to let you know
The strength to love you from below
If mercy comes, let it find you there
Covered in tar, sayin’ your own sick man’s prayer

[verse 2]
Diggin’ that hole like it owes you gold
Every shovel full, another story told
I seen you bleed just to prove you’re tough
But hell’s got room for fools who can't fight enough

[bridge]
Maybe you’re sick, maybe I am too
Can’t tell where your shadow ends, where I can reach through
God save me from bein’ angry tonight
Help me see him in the different light

[pre-chorus reprise]
I asked the rain to wash us clean
But it just made the mud more mean

[chorus]
God, grant me peace to let you go
The strength to love you from below
If mercy comes, let it find you there
Covered in tar, speaking the sick man’s prayer

[outro]
Thy will be done

Sick Man's Prayer

Afterlight

Constellation Station

Black Cat Tongue is a nine-track collection of songs that dive deep into the darker corners of desire, heartbreak, memory, and redemption.

Fade Me Out

Live Recording at "5 Jahre Sternstunde"
Track: Glimpse
23.09.2017 Berlin

AFAR - Glimpse (Live at Bucht)

Download/buy vinyl: https://footshooterbeats.bandcamp.com/album/strange-days-ep-famous-friends

Credits

Drums, Guitar, Keys/Synths, Samples: Barney Whittaker. 
Vocals on A2: Nat Mason.
Words during interlude: Tom Jousselin.
Vocals on B1: Hadiru Mahdi.
Vocals on B2: Tom Jousselin and Izzy Risk.
Extra Keys on B2: Jack Stephenson-Oliver.

Written, Produced and Mixed by Barney Whittaker.
Mastered by Cherif Hashizume at Cafe Music Studios, London. 
Vinyl Pressing by Curved Pressings, London. 
Artwork and layout design by Joe McCrae (joemccrae.com).

Famous Friends 2017.

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B1. Dawn (Buffalo Stance) (feat. Brother Portrait)

recorded live on June 18th 2016  at ShutUpBeach, VinylRumTapas&Wine

DISCO TROPICOSO

Kinshasa 1978

Sankayi - Il ne faut pas intervenir (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction) - radio edit

Psychemagik - Ghost Particle (Feat. Liam Magill)

Out Now: https://lnk.to/IFHTNSL01DS

DJs, producers and unrivaled selectors, Danny McLewin and Tom Coveney have shared the next taste of their debut album ‘ I Feel How This Night Should Look ’ via their stunning next track, ‘Ghost Particle’.

Recorded at Canterbury’s Cosmic Forest Studios, ‘Ghost Particle’ features English psychedelic-rock Syd Arthur frontman Liam Magill. A gorgeously emotive and glistening space prog infused moment track for the album, Ghost Particle glides along at cruising altitude.

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Out Now

Psychemagik - Ghost Particle (Feat. Liam Magill)

Bookings or Requests: info@psychemagik.com